St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-30
AN ABLE SERMON.
Rev. Justus ID. Fulton Talks
About "The Mission of Baptists
to ROmaniStS."

Rev. Justus ID. Fulton Talks
About 'The Mission of Baptists
to Romanists.'
"The Mission of Baptists to Roman
ists'' was the subject of Rev. Justus d.
Fulton, d. D., pastor of Centennial Bap-
fist church, Brooklyn, n. Y, at the
Central Baptist church, Rev. F. T.
Gates, pastor. His text was John viii,
80, ''The Master shall make you free"
He said in part: SIN speaking of the
mission of Baptists to Romanists we do
not, by any means, seek to disparage
other Christian evangelical denOmina-
tons. Why they are here is not our
concern. What they have wrought for
God and man cannot be ignored. They
do not need my praise. They shall not
have my cenSure. To much of Gods
truth they have been loyal and
devoted. Names which mankind
will refuse to let die belong to
them and shed glory over the past, land
the products of their toll enrich the
gamers of hope. In what they have
won for Christ and truth we are share
holders and partners: They have been
broadcast the faith as it is in Jesus. The
work assigned to us has its distinctive
characteristics. BaptistS are the piO-
neers of liberty in all the world. Roman
lists are the champions of despotism in
all the world. Baptists march under
the colors of an open Bible. Romanists
march best when it is padlocked and
closed. Baptists ask only for clear
field and fair fight. Romanists hide in
darkness and shun the light. A heart
washed and made clean in the blood of
the Lamb is the foundation of Baptist
faith, and the life which is an illustrated
edition of the gospel of Christ
is the power to God to the salvation of
lost men. Obedience to the commands
and fealty to the spirit of Christ builds
house mankind. Rome takes her heart
full of sin, bids it work for salvation, not
work out salvation, but work for it by
penance, by benevolence, by purchase
of hopes for the soul here and hereafter.
New systems are antagOniStic. Rome
believes in her mission. She legiSlateS
for the whole world and expects to rule
it. In every way she asserts herself.
Have BaptiSts mission? Gods word
is their rule of faith and practice.
Christ Jesus is the captain of
their salvation. 90 Such peo-
pie ought to have a mission. Their
fathers believed that they were to take
the world by the proclamation of the
truth. They believed in Gods call or
in responding to it. To-day they seem
to feel they are called upon to preach
the gospel in certain localities or to a
certain class of people, and the rest of the
world, if lost, must not be chargeable to
them. The commission reads, GO We
into all the world Baptists used to
heed it and obey it. The mission of
Baptists and ROmanistS may be avowed
because of the outcome of the Baptist
principle. There are, said proini-
nent Roman Catholic, but two par
ties ia the religious world, the
BaptistS and the Roman Catholics,
all the other SectS lie be-
tween these two contending divisions
1t is Baptistic to note what Christ said
or do what Christ did. Christianity be-
gins with conversion. The outcome is
diScipleship, republicanism, champion
ship of truth and battling for every
principle which has to do with advanc-
ing the glory of God OF ameliorating the
condition of man. Es#I
God can use BaptiStSIas he can use no
one else, If the dark despotisms lean on
one another. Bismarck finds in Leo
XIII. an ally, because the despotism of
Prussia must be subserved. Freedom
helps freedom. Russia, Germany, Ire
land, all nations are finding
out that the principles of our
republic are lighting up the world.
What excuse have BaptiStS for their in
difference to truth? If God has charged
them with special responsibilities they
must be true to their trust, OF the work